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How concerning is the new Covid variant?
Should we worry about AY.4.2, the new Covid variant that has been in the news this week? The descendent of…
Trump’s never-ending ‘stolen election’ story damages America
Enough is enough. Yes, there were problems with last November’s election, but they have been litigated and audited for months.…
Why America’s social justice narratives always crash and burn
The wonderful thing about woke narratives is that you only have to wait a while until they collapse. The core…
Is inflation slowing?
Whatever happened to the inflation surge? Last month, when the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) surged to 3.2 per cent, the…
The death of David Amess has no easy answers
Why has the political debate following Sir David Amess’s killing moved so swiftly to focus on civility in politics? It’s…
Biological man scores historic first for women
The Biden administration announced Tuesday that Rachel Levine, the assistant secretary of health, will be sworn in as a four-star…
Let’s Go Brandon takes the charts by storm
It won’t surprise you to learn that Cockburn does not, generally speaking, listen to hip-hop. But he has been forced to…
How serious is the government about Net Zero?
The green agenda is leading the news today with Boris Johnson on a PR mission to sell his environmental plans…
What Prince William gets wrong about space travel
Time was when ‘to boldly go where no man has gone before’ was not just a line from Star Trek.…
Why does Boris Johnson keep on winning?
For his critics, Boris Johnson offends the notion that the British are a sensible people so deeply we feel we…
Here come the Nineties
Everyone is bullish on natural gas, but I think America’s most inexhaustible resource might be 1990s nostalgia. Every time it…
Blame Trump for Texas’s ban on vaccine mandates
Political brains detonated last week after Texas governor Greg Abbott signed a new executive order that effectively banned vaccine mandates…
Colin Powell: A great man – and a failure
My memory of Colin Powell feels personal, even though we were 6000 miles apart at the time. I was in…
Rishi in, Keir out: 2020's most popular baby names
Once the popularity of politicians was judged by how many babies they were asked to kiss – now it’s by…
The idiotic myth of the ‘lone wolf’ attack
In the summer of 2020 the French Senate published a report on the ‘Development of Islamist Radicalisation and the means…
The increasingly expensive claustrophobia of Succession
Success is hard to come by in the Season 3 premier of Succession, which aired last night. As the media…
Did the Johnsons breach lockdown rules?
Did the Johnson clan breach lockdown rules last December? That’s the question being asked in Westminster today after a profile…
What if America doesn’t want to ‘Build Back Better’?
We begin today with the reigning alpha of the self-celebrated political super-staffers. Enter Ron Klain, President Joe Biden’s chief of…
The age of entropy
Americans and other westerners have long been accustomed to thinking that history has a clear direction. Sometimes the direction is…
America needs a 12-step program
When I got sober in October of 2013, my sponsor said many things I didn’t want to hear. One of…
Why the French establishment fears Eric Zemmour
Béziers It’s a book tour, mais pas comme des autres. Last night, Eric Zemmour, rising star of the French right…
Bullfighting and the fight for Spain’s future
Being sanctimonious about foreigners and their cruelty to animals has long been a British tradition. The taste for dog meat…
Stalking, harassment and abuse: the threats facing MPs and staff
Following the murder of Sir David Amess on Friday, there has been much discussion about the level of security for…
The never-ending terror of Islamism
It is no huge surprise Ali Harbi Ali, the man arrested on suspicion of the murder of David Amess, had…
Is the European centre collapsing?
There’s a growing tension in the European bloc between those unhappy with Brussels’s increasing interventionism and by those who feel the…
